Job 22

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,

²May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

³Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

⁴Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

⁵Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

⁶For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

⁷To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

⁸But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.

⁹Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.

¹⁰Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:

¹¹Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

¹²Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

¹³But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

¹⁴The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

¹⁵Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?